This learning object was created as part of the Archi21 Project. It explores an example design brief in English to understand the elements it contains, and the meaning of some of the key language used. It also explores what makes a good design brief for a new building.

Image from ?The Works of Alfred Tennyson?, 003598807
Author: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron
Volume: 01
Page: 69
Year: 1877
Place: London
Publisher: H. S. King & Co.
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Image from ?The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, with photographic illustrations by G. W. Wilson. (Prefatory notice by W. M. Rossetti.)?, 000543323
Author: Burns, Robert
Page: 551
Year: 1885
Place: London
Publisher: Suttaby & Co.
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Image from ?Drake and his Yeomen, etc. [A tale.]?, 000204774
Author: BARNES, James Author of ?For King or Country.?
Page: 124
Year: 1899
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
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Image from ?A Boyar of the Terrible. A romance of the court of Ivan the Cruel, etc?, 003904457
Author: WHISHAW, Frederick J.
Page: 22
Year: 1896
Place: London
Publisher: Longmans & Co.
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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01398
Title: Montpellier. Le Peyrou, Château d'Eau
Photographer: C. H. Whitaker
Building Date: ca. 1600-ca. 1799
Photograph date: ca. 1930
Location: Europe: France; Montpellier
Materials: gelatin silver print
Image: 7.6378 x 9.6063 in.; 19.4 x 24.4 cm
Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5tm2
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Image from ?Russia, political and social ? Translated from the French by E. Aveling?, 003637709
Author: TIKHOMIROV, Lev Aleksandrovich.
Volume: 02
Page: 11
Year: 1888
Place: London
Publisher: Sonnenschein & Co.
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Image from ?Poets? Wit and Humour. Selected by W. H. W. Illustrated, etc?, 003941183
Author: WILLS, William Henry Miscellaneous Writer
Page: 98
Year: 1882
Place: London
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co.
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Image from ?Les Villes de Thuringe; Weimar, Erfurt, Jena, Gotha, Altenbourg, Coburg, Meiningen?, 001764460
Author: HUMBERT, E?douard.
Page: 215
Year: 1869
Place: Paris, Gene?ve [printed]
Publisher:
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Image from ?The Magic of the Pine Woods: a tale, etc?, 001957321
Author: KETTLE, Mary Rosa Stuart.
Page: 25
Year: 1891
Place: London
Publisher: T. F. Unwin
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Image from ?The Court of the Tuileries, from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe?, 001833941
Author: JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte Lady
Volume: 02
Page: 429
Year: 1883
Place: London
Publisher: Bentley & Son
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Image from ?Timbuktu. Reise durch Marokko, die Sahara und den Sudan, ausgefu?hrt in Auftrage der afrikanischen Gesellschaft in Deutschland in den Jahren 1879 und 1880 ? Mit ? Abbildungen und ? Karten?, 002133642
Author: LENZ, Oskar.
Page: 33
Year: 1884
Place: Leipzig
Publisher:
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Image from ?The English Provinces. A picturesque survey of the English and Welsh Counties ? Translated by Henry Frith. With ? illustrations?, 003794927
Author: VILLARS, Paul.
Page: 282
Year: 1888
Place: London
Publisher: G Routledge and Sons
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Image from ?Friend Ellwood: a tale of real life in the 17th Century?, 003852153
Author: WARE, Mary Clementina Hibbert.
Volume: 03
Page: 28
Year: 1884
Place: London; Edinburgh [printed]
Publisher: F. V. White & Co.
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Image from ?The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ? engravings and maps?, 003055004
Author: RECLUS, E?lise?e.
Volume: 19
Page: 139
Year: 1878
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from ?Gloriana; or, the Revolution of 1900. [A novel.]?, 000973285
Author: DOUGLAS, afterwards DIXIE, Florence Caroline Lady
Page: 206
Year: 1890
Place: London
Publisher: Henry & Co
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Image from ?In Troubadour-Land. A ramble in Provence and Languedoc ? Illustrated by J. E. Rogers?, 001476229
Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Page: 247
Year: 1891
Place: London
Publisher: W. H. Allen & Co.
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Image from ?System of mineralogy, etc. Third edition, enlarged and improved?, 001848618
Author: JAMESON, Robert F.R.S.E
Volume: 02
Page: 662
Year: 1820
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher:
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This course is intended to introduce graduate students to a set of core writings in the field of urban sociology. Topics include the changing nature of community, social inequality, political power, socio-spatial change, technological change, and the relationship between the built environment and human behavior. We examine the key theoretical paradigms that have constituted the field since its founding, assess how and why they have changed over time, and discuss the implications of these paradigmatic shifts for urban scholarship, social policy and the planning practice. This course is intended to introduce graduate students to a set of core writings in the field of urban sociology. Topics include the changing nature of community, social inequality, political power, socio-spatial change, technological change, and the relationship between the built environment and human behavior. We examine the key theoretical paradigms that have constituted the field since its founding, assess how and why they have changed over time, and discuss the implications of these paradigmatic shifts for urban scholarship, social policy and the planning practice.

Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm

Image from ?Historia de la Conquista de Me?jico, ? traducida del original por D. J. B. de Beratarrechea?, 002983576
Author: PRESCOTT, William Hickling.
Volume: 02
Page: 361
Year: 1847
Place: Madrid
Publisher:
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Image from ?Old Southwark and its people?, 003073784
Author: RENDLE, William F.R.C.S
Page: 359
Year: 1878
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from ?Humanity and the Man. ? New edition, revised and rewritten. To which is appended Books VII. and VIII. of ?The Dual Image.??, 003358511
Author: SHARPE, William M.D., Writer of Verse
Page: 6
Year: 1898
Place: pp. 29. H. A. Copley: London, 1898
Publisher:
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